Notebook: Familiar Face Across The Field On Sunday

Both Mike McCarthy and Marvin Lewis said a moment like this Sunday wasn't even a thought for them when they were young coaches on the University of Pittsburgh staff together in the early 1990s, but it will be the first time the two have faced off as NFL head coaches in a regular-season game.

The two coaches worked together at Pittsburgh from 1990-91 when McCarthy was a graduate assistant coach (quarterbacks) for the Panthers and Lewis tutored the outside linebackers. Packers special teams coordinator Shawn Slocum was also on Pittsburgh's staff in 1990 as a graduate assistant (defense).

"Mike was just an extremely hard-worker, very thorough," Lewis said. "Everything he was asked to do was done at the utmost, just spotless, sparkling. Just worked his tail off and Shawn was the same way. That's probably why they still have the same bond they have today."

Sunday will be the first time that the two head coaches have been on opposite sidelines for a regular-seaso..